hasten
verb (used without object)
had hastened
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past perfectof hasten.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When the dam was recaptured, American engineers and scientists worried that the lapse in grouting had hastened the erosion of the dam’s foundation.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016
Scott didn’t, it bombed; but by bombing, it helped bring about the death of the anti-auteur era in 1990, no less than Heaven’s Gate had hastened the death of the auteur era in 1980.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2012
Dr. Bunting said it was possible that a subsequent trauma — like a run-in with a car or another animal — had hastened the worsening of the foot.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011
Moralists believed that female bathers corrupted men and had hastened the fall of the Roman Empire.
From Washington Post
On his return to Denver Frank had hastened at once to look over the “mechanical effect” which had been constructed for him.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
